About this programme

1/2. Every year thousands of motor sports enthusiasts from all over the world descend upon a dried-up salt lake in Bonneville, Utah, hoping to join the elite group of the fastest people on earth. This documentary follows British petrolheads building machines that they hope will make a mark in America, beginning by meeting the obsessive men behind the machines, including a Great Yarmouth beach cleaner with a formidable reputation as a motorcycle builder. Bill Nighy narrates.